2018 Volume 30 Issue 2 Pages 67-71
Voice therapy consists of vocal hygiene training to prevent certain voice problems and vocal modification training to encourage appropriate vocalization. The voice therapy regimen depends on the pathological condition of vocalization (laryngeal hyper and hypofunction, incomplete glottic closure).
During vocal hygiene training, patients are required to understand the mechanism of vocalization and factors known to exacerbate voice disorder, and hygiene training must be presented to each patient individually to ensure the best outcome.
The goal of vocal modification training is to improve the vocal efficiency by adjusting the collision intensity of the vocal folds. In this paper, the author describes voice therapy based on several points to improve the utility of intrinsic laryngeal muscles (lateral cricoarytenoid muscle, thyroarytenoid muscle, and cricothyroid muscle).
